I've seen this brought up a few times, so I wanted to present an analogy for those who don't quite understand what's going on here.
Think about it as if you're a baker that's baking cupcakes for a customer's order. You know that the order is due in three days, and you need to deliver 100 cupcakes with peanut butter filling and dark chocolate icing with decorations... words written in the icing or something. You start the baking process, but realize one day into it that you won't be able to fill and frost all of the cupcakes in that time, because frosting them with the designs you made are taking a lot longer than expected. In addition, some of the cupcakes you frosted and filled are not done right (misspellings, or not enough filling, or broken). They will need to be remade.
You estimate you're going to need at least an extra day to finish filling and frosting all 100 of the cupcakes. So you go to your customer, and you present the following options:
1. 70 cupcakes filled and frosted by the deadline.
2. 100 cupcakes filled, but only 30 frosted by the deadline.
3. 80 cupcakes frosted, but only 40 of them filled by the deadline.
4. Delay the order for a day, delivering 100 frosted and filled cupcakes late. This will cost the customer more money, since you still need to pay the frosters and the fillers for their time. You do not have the operating budget to pay for them yourself out of pocket, which is why you must ask for more from the customer.
Imagine that the customer is actually not going to eat the cupcakes himself, but rather resell them at his coffee shop, along with other baked goods like muffins, cookies, alongside his fresh coffee.
Supposing that the customer decides to pay the additional money for the additional baking necessary for his order... would he expect to get any additional cupcakes, or additional decoration from them? It is unlikely to be so - the estimate is to complete just the initial order. Adding more to it would cost more, and would have to push the deadline out even further. That isn't something the customer is necessarily prepared for or wants. The customer may not be interested in adding more to the finished cupcake's design, he just wants the cupcakes he asked for. This is what often happens when a game is delayed.
The customer actually has an additional option available too - he can cancel his order. Under what circumstances would he do this? He knows he can't get a refund for the baking already done, and it will look bad to
his customers if he already promised cupcakes but won't be able to offer to sell them, but if he doesn't have the money on hand to pay for more baking, he may just have to cut his losses, hoping to make up the rest on the sale of coffee and muffins. If the money he estimates he'll make from selling the cupcakes isn't higher than the additional money he has to pay to get the cupcakes finished, he will also probably cut his losses. He may decide to stop selling cupcakes altogether, if there are consistent problems with getting them made. This is often what happens when a game is cancelled.
Sometimes the customer cancels his order and the baker is left with a bunch of half-frosted, half-filled cupcakes. He believes that the finished cupcakes would sell and are fabulous, but he's got a limited amount of time before they start to go bad and he has to throw them away. So what does he do? He goes to other storefronts... cafes, ice cream shops, etc. to try to find a buyer for the abandoned cupcakes. Sometimes he does. Sometimes he cannot, and is forced to throw them out. This is what often happens when a game is dropped by a publisher, and tries to find another.
I hope this helps with the understanding. At the very least, I hope it makes people hungry.
Modifié par hoorayforicecream, 30 octobre 2013 - 08:08 .
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I would like to decide if my character is bulky or slender, has wide shoulders, narrow hips, etc. I would love that. Every time I turn on Dragon's Dogma I fiddle with the CC. It's so awesome! Would love that for DA:I.
